At Madrid summit, Donald Tusk says bloc has lost ability to protect borders

MADRID—Center-right politicians meeting here Thursday showed they had failed to resolve differences over how to deal with a migration crisis in Europe, displaying apparent divisions over the effectiveness of border controls.

Donald Tusk, the former Polish prime minister who runs European Union summit meetings, said the migration flows showed Europe had lost the ability to protect its external borders and the bloc should stop pretending it had a policy to deal with it.

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